Drying-frame.



c. A. SCANS.

DRYING FRAME.

PPLICATION FILED N0v.28.191s.

Patented Au 21, 1917.

:1 l A. SCANS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DRYING-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd Aug, 211, 191'? Application filed November 28, 1916. Serial No. 133,964.

To all whom it may concern Be it lmown that 1, Gran. A. SoANs, a

. citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Drying-Frames, of which the 7 following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in drying frames and refers particularly to a drying frame which may be used inconjunction with the ordinary radiator usually installed in dwelling houses or apartments.

The principal objects of the invention are to provide a drying frame which maybe applied to an ordinary steam or hot water radiator; to provide a drying frame which is capable of, being applied to radiators of varying lengths or of different cross sections; to provide a drying frame which is capable of being supported rigidly and securely on an ordinary radiator of the class described without the aid of extraneous suport or fastening devices; to provide a drylng frame of the class described which may be removed from or applied to a radiator without the necessity of-making mechanical adjustments; to'provide a drying frame of the class described which may be collapsed or folded fiat for shipping or storage purposes; to provide a frame of the class de scribed in which substantially the entire heat emanating from the radiator is em- .ployed in the .drying of the clothes hung upon the frame; toprovide a drying frame of the class described which shall have a large clothes capacity, while at the same time being comparatively inconspicuous and compact, and which does not obstruct valuable room space; to provide a drying frame of the class described which may be made of inexpensive material and which shall be simple in design and substantial in construction, and, in general to provide an improved drying frame of the characterreferred to.

In the drawings which accompany this application, Figure 1 is an elevation of the frame applied to a radiator. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the frame and radiator shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a section taken on the side 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 10 represents a -multi-coil cast iron radiator of the type usually installed in houses or apartments,

' bolts 31 and 32 are equipped with wing nuts,

and which may be heated by either steam or hot water.

The main elements of the frame comprise a frame'proper consisting of a pair of opposed side bars 13 and 14, between which side bars extend a series of rods 15 upon which the clothes are hung or draped. The frame proper is pivotally supported on a horizontal axis at the upper ends of a pair of uprights 16 and 17, and the frame proper may be adjusted at any angle by means of the wing nuts 18 and 19 on the pivot bolts 20 and 21 which extend through the side bars and the uprights.

The lower ends of the uprights 16 and 17 are extended downwardly at the front of the radiator and their lower ends are con-v nected by means of a wooden bar or Strip porting structure from swinging toward the wall. The weight of the device is borne principally'by the top strip 23 nailed to the front strip 24;, the latter being also nailed to the rear faces of the uprights 16. It will be observed that the strip 23 rests upon the top of the ornamental curved portion 25 of the radiator coils 26, and the front strip 23 engages the fronts of said curved portions 25, thereby preventing bodily movement of the structure toward the wall.

The tops of the uprights 16 and 17 carrying the frame proper are prevented from swinging outwardly into the room by means of a hook member which engages the rear faces of the rear ornamental curved portion 26 of the-coils of the radiator, said parts 26 thus constituting abutments which prevent said outward swinging movement of the frame. The hook member which engages the parts 26 comprises a rear bar or strip 27 nailed to a topstrip 28, the said top strip 28 being also nailed to a pair of cross membersacross the top of the 29 and 30 extendin radiator and adjusta ly connected to the uprights 16 and 17 by bolts 31 and 32. The

As shown, the radiator stands on the floor 11, ad acent to the side wall 12..

33 and 34 so as to enable the cross bars 29- and 30 tobe placed in different angular po-.-

tight with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 1, the supporting structure is rigidly to fit rather closely between the front strip each bar in two pieces whichtelescope or 24 and rear. strip 27 This adjustabilit of the bars 29 and'30 is provided by ma g slidewith reference to each other.

For instance, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the part 29 constitutes the front end of the two piece bar 29, the alinement of the two parts of the bar being preserved by the extremely narrow space, enabling it :to be .not in use. ,the device may be slipped down into the tongue and groove joint 35. When the bars 29 and 30 have been adjusted to the proper lengthby sliding the parts29 and 29 'relative to each other they are locked in position by means of a clamping bolt 36 and wing nut 37, the bolt extending through a hole in the part '29 and through a long slot 38 in the outer piece of the cross bar 29. Spread ing of the open forked ends 39 and 40 when the cross bar is fully extended is prevented by a small clip 40 apertured to'receive .the bolt 36 and having its ends bent over the outside edges of the slotted parts of the crossbar, as shown at 41 and 42. In order to increase the capacity of the drying frame for small articles which may be conveniently hung from a single point of support, 1 prefer tofurnish the upper ends of the side bars 13 and 14with a plurality of outstanding pegs 4:3. i

The device may be folded or collapsed into very small compass by releasing thethumb nuts 20 and. 21 and swinging the lower end of the frame roper down between the uprights l6 and 1 while at the same time the thumb nuts 33 and .34; are released and the cross bars 29 and 30 are swun up into such osition that the side bars lie a ong the outsi eof the upper parts -of the uprights 16 and 17. The devicemay be thus folded into a fiat package which occupies an shipped readily or stored conveniently when For instance, when so folded,

space between the wall 12 and the'coils of the radiator .As adrying frame, the frame is extremely eliicient for the reason that the heated air currents produced by the radiator are almost entirely intercepted by the clothes suspended from the bars 15, the wall 12 constituting a baffle which throws the rising cur: rents of air outwardly into the room to some extent, so that the clothes hung on the front of the device are efiiciently dried as Well as the clothes hung directly over the radiator.

The device being wholly supported by the radiator does not obstruct valuable floor space and, although the lower end of the with clothing.

I have described in this specification only a single application of my invention which may be embodied in other forms without sacrifice of efliciency. The scope of the invention must, therefore, be determined by referring to the appended claims.

. I claim: V

1. Means for detachably mounting a dryi ing rack upon a suitable support comprising a member extending u wardly and downwardly from the top 0 the support, to the upper extension of which the rack is secured, the lower extension being arranged to enga e a front facing portion ofthe support an a part secured .to said member and engaging a rearwardly facing portion of the support for reventing swinging movement of said mem er, the arrangement including a downwardly facing part secured to said member and engaging an upwardly facing portion of .the support for supporting the weight of the structure.

'2. Means for detacliably mounting a dry ing rack upon a suitable support comprising-a pair of spaced apart members extending upwardly and downwardly from the top of the support to -theupper extensions of which the rack is pivotally secured,- the lower extensions being arranged to engage a front facing portion of the support and a part securedto said-members and engagmembers and engaging the top of the sup port for supporting the. weight of the structure.

3. Means for detachably mounting a drying rack composed of a connected series of ing a rearwardly facing portion of the 'suphorizontal clothes rods upon a suitable support comprising a pair of spaced apart members extending upwardly nd downwardly from the'top of the sup ort to the upper extensions of which the rack is pivotally secured, a member connecting the lower ends of said members and engagin a front facing'portion of the support an a hook member secured to intermediate portions of said members and engaging a rearwardly facing portion of the support for preventing swinging movements of said I -members away from the support and a downwardly facing part secured to intermediate v the weightof the structure on top of the portions of said members and resting upon an upwardly facing portion of the support for bearing the weight of the structure. 4. Means for /detachably mounting a drying rack upon a suitable support comprising.

a pair of spaced apart members extending upwardly and downwardly from the top of the support, the dryingrack being secured- 'to upper portions of said members, a pair of adjustably spaced opposed parts connected to intermediate points of said members and engaging opposite sides of said support for positioning the intermediate portions of said members, means on the lower ends of said members and engaging one of the said sides of said support for preventing movement of the lower ends of said members and the lower ends of said uprights for preventing movement of the latter inwardly of the support; means secured to intermediate portions of said uprights for preventing said intermediate portions from moving inwardly of the support and for supporting support and a hook member connected to said uprights and engaging a rearwardly facing portion of said support for prevent in'g outward movement of the tops of the uprights position. A drying frame adapted to be mounted tbt upon a support comprising a series of horizontal spaced apart clothes rods, a pair of I opposed side bars carrying said rods; a pair of spaced apart uprights upon which said side bars are pivoted on a horizontal axis,

said uprights having their lower ends extended below the'top' of the support and outside of the support, means connected-to the lower ends of said uprights for preventing the movement of the latter inwardly of the support; means secured to intermediate portions ofv said uprights for preventing said intermediate portions from moving inwardly of the support and for supporting the weight of the structure on the top of the support and a hook member connected to said uprights and engaging a rearwardly facing portion of said sup ort for preventing outward movement 0 the tops. of the uprights, said hook member being adjust-- able in length and pivotally connected to said uprights.

7 A drying frame for mounting on the top vof a support comprising a pair of side bars,

horizontal clothes rods extending between said side bars, a pair of spaced apart uprights to which intermediate portions of said side bars are pivotally connected, said uprights having their lower 'ends extended down below the top of the support, but outside of the side plane'of the latter, a strip connecting the lowerend of said uprights and en gaging a side of the support, a strip connecting said uprights'ad acent to the top of.

the support and also engagin the upper portion of the support, extensi 1e members extending across the top of the support and conneotedto said uprights, a. strip' se-' curedgin the ends of said extensible members and engaging the support on the'side remote from the uprights, and means for locking said extensible members in adjusted cram A. soars. 

